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Gladys Berejiklian wants to be known as the "investment and jobs
premier" as global companies "beat down her door" to set up in
SydneyAs new airport city.

Ms BerejiklianAs trade mission to the UK and Germany has seen the
government sign five agreements with leading companies that will set
up in the western Sydney aerotropolis.

Gladys Berejiklian wants to be known as the "investment and jobs
premier" as global companies "beat down her door" to set up in
SydneyAs new airport city.

Ms BerejiklianAs trade mission to the UK and Germany has seen the
government sign five agreements with leading companies that will set
up in the western Sydney aerotropolis.


But the Premier said while her focus has previously been on delivering transport and infrastructure, she now wants to work to ensure
thousands of jobs were created at Badgerys Creek.

"Like a lot of the transport projects I started when I was transport
minister are bearing fruit now, the deals we are doing now will bear
fruit in five to 10 years," Ms Berejiklian told the Herald.

"So thereAs a common theme of setting the state up for the future
because a lot of the deals I am doing now are critical and are
diversifying the economy and will bring thousands of jobs.

"It wonAt happen tomorrow, but unless I do the deals now, they wonAt
happen."

Ms BerejiklianAs trade mission has seen her sign agreements with
international companies including GE Additive, a world leader in 3D
printing and global defence giant BAE Systems.

One of the agreements is also with the University of SheffieldAs
Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre, which will establish a
world-class advanced manufacturing centre at Badgerys Creek.

Premier Gladys Berejiklian has visions of fast trains in NSW, just
like the ones in Germany.
Premier Gladys Berejiklian has visions of fast trains in NSW, just
like the ones in Germany.CREDIT:AP, SUPPLIED

The research centre is built on an old coking site and has been
credited with breathing new life into Sheffield as the city faced a
spiral of industrial decline.

The centreAs founder Keith Ridgway said he was keen to help the NSW
government establish the aerotropolis as a modern research and skills
hub.

"ItAs truly an honour that our economic and social experiment in
Sheffield and Rotherham has attracted the attention of such a dynamic
and ambitious government on the other side of the world," Professor
Ridgway said.

The government has committed to creating 200,000 jobs at the
aerotropolis, with a significant proportion to be located within 30
minutes of where workers live.

Ms Berejiklian said she was "absolutely overwhelmed" by the interest
in the airport city.

I know our pitch is right and I know the concept is right and the
vision is right because I have been overwhelmed with interest," she
said.

"We are in a great position where we are being choosy and we are going
for the worldAs best ... Companies from around the world are beating
down our doors."

Ms Berejiklian said she also planned to seize on opportunities in the
UK post-Brexit and was the first Australian leader to meet BritainAs
Trade Secretary Liz Truss in London.

"I am here to pounce," Ms Berejiklian said.

Ms Berejiklian said as part of her push to be "premier for jobs", she
wanted there to be a shift in education thinking, starting with no
longer treating TAFE as a poor cousin to university.

"I have always had a vision that universities and TAFEs have to work
much more closely together and the diversification of our economy and
I am actually having that fed back to me from the companies I am
meeting on the trade mission."
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